Aryeh Leib ben Moses Zuenz explained
Aryeh Leib ben Moses Zuenz (–1833) was a rabbi and scholar of the 18th and 19th centuries who lived in Pińczów, and later in Plotzk. He was the author of the following works:
- Ya'alat Chen (Zolkiev, 1802), sermons on different parashiyyot
- Get Mekushshar (Warsaw, 1812), compendium to that part of Maimonides' Yad which treats of divorce
- Magen ha-Elef, called also Shem Chadash (ib. 1817), on the regulations of the ritual codex referring to the Passover festival (to this work are appended notes on the Machatzit ha-Shekel of Samuel ha-Levi Kolin)
- She'elot u-Teshubot Gur Aryeh Yehudah (Zolkiev, 1827), compendium of the four ritual codices:
- Chiddushim (Warsaw, 1830), treating of the shechitah and terefah
- Simchat Yom-Tob (ib. 1841), complete commentary on the tractate Betzah
- She'elot u-Teshubot Meshibat Nefesh (ib. 1849), responsa on the ritual codices
- Chiddushim (ib. 1859), compendium of the ritual codex Yoreh De'ah
- Birkat ha-Shir, a Passover Haggadah together with commentary
- Melo ha-'Omer, commentary on the Pentateuch and the Five Megillot
- Tib Chalitzah and Tib Kiddushin, collections of responsa on the ceremony of chalitzah as observed in modern times, and on marriage contracts.
Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography
- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. s.v. "Zinz";
- Benjacob, Otzar ha-Sefarim, pp. 94, 96, 175, 208, 227, 296, 376, 591, 592, 594, 636.